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David Grann at Segerstrom Concert Hall
End Date: April 16, 2025
Start Time: 8:00 PM
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa, CA
2025-04-16
2025-04-16
America/Los_Angeles
David Grann at Segerstrom Concert Hall
"David Grann inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive." - Slate Magazine
David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Known as “the man Hollywood can’t stop reading,” Grann breathes new life into historical events, gifting his readers factually accurate tales that read like a thrilling work of fiction and that are ripe for adaptation.
Grann is the author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which documented one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. Described in the New York Times as a “riveting” work that will “sear your soul,” it was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best true crime book. A #1 New York Times bestseller (with over 100 weeks on the list, and counting), it was named one of the best books of the year by the Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and selected by Amazon as the single best book of the year. The book was adapted into a 2023 motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, earning 10 Academy Award nominations.
Grann’s first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, it was chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. Grann’s book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by James Gray and starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland.
His newest novel, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, tells the true saga of a company of British naval officers and crew that became stranded on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia and descended into murderous anarchy. With the twists and turns of a thriller, the book explores the nature of survival, duty, and leadership, and it examines how both people and nations tell—and manipulate—history. The Wager debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has remained on the list ever since, often in the top spot. Rights to The Wager were acquired prior to the book’s release, with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio reuniting as director and leading man.
Join us as Grann explores his creative process— and reveals what initially inspires him to investigate a story, his painstaking research, and how he links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance today.
Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert HallEvent Description
"David Grann inspires a devotion in readers that can border on the obsessive." - Slate Magazine
David Grann is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Known as “the man Hollywood can’t stop reading,” Grann breathes new life into historical events, gifting his readers factually accurate tales that read like a thrilling work of fiction and that are ripe for adaptation.
Grann is the author of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which documented one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. Described in the New York Times as a “riveting” work that will “sear your soul,” it was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best true crime book. A #1 New York Times bestseller (with over 100 weeks on the list, and counting), it was named one of the best books of the year by the Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Time, and selected by Amazon as the single best book of the year. The book was adapted into a 2023 motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Robert De Niro, earning 10 Academy Award nominations.
Grann’s first book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, it was chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications. Grann’s book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by James Gray and starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Holland.
His newest novel, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, tells the true saga of a company of British naval officers and crew that became stranded on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia and descended into murderous anarchy. With the twists and turns of a thriller, the book explores the nature of survival, duty, and leadership, and it examines how both people and nations tell—and manipulate—history. The Wager debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has remained on the list ever since, often in the top spot. Rights to The Wager were acquired prior to the book’s release, with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio reuniting as director and leading man.
Join us as Grann explores his creative process— and reveals what initially inspires him to investigate a story, his painstaking research, and how he links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance today.
